Words of Love

Luke thought about words,
how absent they were when one is born,
which is why the poet had said
as close to the Word the soul once was
the child is father to man,

except that the child could know but one love
of a mother, Luke's wife, lover and friend
who waits for him on their Salvation Army
bed without sheets on hot summer nights
in a wordless, naked holy land.

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